Zinedine zidane biography pdf

This is a pre-publication draft of this article, published in the International Journal of Cultural Studies, , Volume 11(3): –, DOI: / Quiet Contradictions of Celebrity: Zinedine Zidane, Image, Sound, Silence and Fury Abstract The French soccer-player Zinedine Zidane is an emblematic sport star whose celebrity persona nevertheless remains opaque and open to debate. As a French citizen of Algerian origin, Zidane has come to embody many current French concerns over the integration of ethnic minorities and has, particularly since the World Cup Finals of and , been subjected to intense scrutiny and interpretation. Despite such attention, however, he remains quietly inscrutable, the contradicting claims on his identity and celebrity persona compounding his own lack of selfreflection in a complex negotiation of significance. Assessing Zidane through the interlinkages of his hybrid identity, ethnicity, mas

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